# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:39:57.906Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born poor in Zurich in 1516, Gessner's intellectual gifts were spotted early; his father and teachers pushed him through university to study languages, theology, and medicine. He became the city physician but spent his hours amassing knowledge: his Bibliotheca universalis (1545–1549) attempted to list every book ever written, his Historia animalium (1551–1558) did the same for the animal kingdom. He was often the first in Europe to describe a species in print — the tulip in 1559, among others. He was deep into a massive botanical text when plague took him on 13 December 1565, at 49. Plants and animals still carry his name.